Charming Quotes - Page 22

• Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  May, Ophelia, Theater

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• Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Education, College, Men

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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Novelty, Interest

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• There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Knowledge, Mean, Sea

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• Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Order, Realizing

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• Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Doe, Gloves

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• Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

  Rose Macaulay

  Independent, Self, Parent

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• Novelty in all things is charming.

  Ovid

  Novelty, All Things

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• Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.

  Ovid

  Charm

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• [To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

  Margot Asquith

  Party, Thinking, Leaving

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• People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

  Ada Leverson

  People, Charm, Charmed

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.47, tredition

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• Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Home, Trying

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• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Perfect, Interesting, Together

  "On tour with a guerrilla gourmet". BookPage interview, bookpage.com. December 2001.

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• Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.

  Patricia Briggs

  Children, Powerful, Two

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.12, Penguin

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• Now that was informative" were her first words. "Catherine, you never told me that no matter how many times you sliced something off a vampire, it grew back" Charming, "Guess I don't have to ask if you had a nice time.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Nice, Vampire, Matter

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Being charming is my hobby.

  Richelle Mead

  Hobbies

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.152, Penguin

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• He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.

  Derek Landy

  Glasses, Car, Lovely

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• We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

  Emilie Autumn

  Pages, Sentimental, Forget

  Song: The Music I Heard Once

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• I don't want to tell you how to be a prince, but shouldn't you have some bodyguards or something?" "Bodyguards? Who would want to harm a charming guy like me?

  Marissa Meyer

  Guy, Want, Bodyguard

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• Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Names, Intellectual

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• I never understand why women think drama and bullshit are attractive to guys. They’re not. I’m going to be real clear about this, ladies, so pay attention: Prince Charming doesn't come to rescue cunty lunatics.

  Tucker Max

  Real, Drama, Thinking

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

  Ayn Rand

  Cheerful, Way, Facts

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.91, Penguin

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• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Privilege, Income

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• My fans are the best fans, because they're charming, they're sweet and they're super intelligent. Thank you guys so much!

  Stana Katic

  Sweet, Intelligent, Guy

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